ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,831, issued on July 21, was assigned to TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBH (Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Switzerland).

"Building data platform with schema extensibility for states of a digital twin" was invented by Dominick James O'Dierno (Mt Pleasant, Wis.), Brian Scott Otto (Menomonee Falls, Wis.) and Trent Mark Swanson (Wellington, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A building system includes one or more memory devices comprising instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform one or more first operations based on a digital twin of a building. The instructions cause the one or mor...